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I just got the announcement about the latest release of CruiseControl.NET 1.3. The new version is now build with NET 2.0, so it needs the NET 2.0 redistributable to run. The main feature are: support for integration queues to control build concurrency and manage dependencies between projects performance improvements in the web dashboard, especially for cctray polling via http ccnet has been migrated to .net 2.0 and now takes advantage of some of the features of .net 2.0 including switching the EmailPublisher to use SMTP support for the Accurev SCM For more details look at the release notes on...

This weekend I decided to try Camtasia to record a screencast to show you how my CC.NET monitoring gadget looks like before you decide to install it on your Vista computer. But also to show people that don't have Vista what they are missing. The screencast shows how to add the gadget to the sidebar, how to configure it to monitor 2 different build servers choosing only the projects you are interested in and how it looks like both in the docked and undocked view. This is my first screencast, and also the first time I record my voice, so,...

Yesterday, after a few weeks not working on Subtext main trunk (busy with the CC.NET Monitor and the testing of the soon-to-be-released 1.9.5 version) I updated my local working folder from the SVN repository. And as soon as I opened the solution I got errors saying that a project was missing. I removed the project in my local solution, and then VS complained that some file were added to some projects, but were missing on the disk: somebody in the team probably added a new solution and a few files to the project, but only committed the project files, but...

UPDATE: The latest version of CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar is v0.9.5: read more about it on the CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar v0.9.5 release notes.
A few days ago I announced the beta phase for version 0.8 of my CC.NET Monitoring gadget, and now I think it's ready for the release.
Project opensourced on Google Code
I also created to host the project on Google Code, so now I've a central repository to store the source code, the files released, the documentation and also a small issue tracking system.
I already added 2 pages on the project wiki:
CC.NET Monitor Features
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UPDATE: version 0.8 released: read more on CruiseControl.NET Monitoring Gadget for Vista Sidebar 0.8
Two weeks ago I released the first version of my CC.NET Monitor Gadget for Vista Sidebar, and I received a lot of feedbacks on what I should put into the next version of the gadget: the possibility to choose which projects to display, an automatic scrolling of the list of projects, a button to force the build on the server, a global indicator to be able to see at a glance if any of the projects are failing.
So during the last weeks I worked on these feature...

UPDATE: the latest version of that gadget is now 0.9.5. Read more on the 0.9.5 release notes.
I just released the new version of my CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar (why is everybody giving such long names to software?): version number 0.7
This version adds the most requested feature: the ability to specify which project to display.
Now in the settings page you can specify the "Display Mode":
All projects
Only failing projects
Only specified projects
All but the specified projects
and then there is a text...

The CruiseControl.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar is the first "real" Vista Sidebar gadget I developed, so I want to share 2 of the problems I encountered during the development.
The first problem was that the XmlHttpRequest always returned "undefined" (which is the null in javascript) for its responseXML property. I was reading an xml file, why did I receive a null instead of the XML Document contained into the response?
The XmlStatusReport.aspx file that contains the report for the build server doesn't have an xml content-type (not text/xml, application/xml or with a .xml extension) but has, as any other html page, a text/html content-type....

UPDATE: The latest version of CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar is v0.9.5: read more about it on the CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar v0.9.5 release notes.
Yesterday I released the first version (number 0.5) of my CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar.
But I forgot some debugging stuff in the release. So, in order to avoid confusion, I bumped up the version number to 0.6.
Here is the new version:
CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar 0.6
Release notes:
Removed an hard-coded url I used for debugging
Removed the double cycle I used to test the scrolling of the gadget with more project
Thank you to Thomas and Steve for reporting...